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    [PATCH] Fix GFP_HIGHMEM slab panic · 5211e6e6
    Giridhar Pemmasani authored
    As reported by Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>, we let through some
    non-slab bits to slab allocation through __get_vm_area_node when doing a
    vmalloc.
    
    I haven't been able to reproduce this, although I understand why it
    happens: vmalloc allocates memory with
    
    GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM
    
    and commit 52fd24ca
    
     resulted in the same
    flags are passed down to cache_alloc_refill, causing the BUG.  The
    following patch fixes it.
    
    Note that when calling kmalloc_node, I am masking off __GFP_HIGHMEM with
    GFP_LEVEL_MASK, whereas __vmalloc_area_node does the same with
    
    ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO).
    
    IMHO, using GFP_LEVEL_MASK is preferable, but either should fix this
    problem.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGiridhar Pemmasani <(pgiri@yahoo.com)>
    Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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